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by public auction in manner hereinafter prescribed, and not otherwise.

26—All sales shall take place at the Crown Lands Office in the town of New Plymouth, and shall commence at the hour of Eleven a. m., and close not later than the hour of Three p.m. The Superintendent may from time to time, by notice in the said Gazette, appoint any other place or hour of sale; but no such notice shall take effect until the expiration of one calendar month from its publication.

27—The sub-Treasurer of the General Government or his deputy for the purpose approved of by the Superintendent, or some other person appointed for the purpose by the Governor shall conduct the sales.

28—There shall be a periodical sale of Rural Land on the first day of every month, unless the same fall on a Sunday or on Good Friday, and in that case on the following day.

29—The biddings at sales of Rural Lands shall be of a certain sum per acre for a section to be immediately afterwards chosen by the bidder in any district duly declared as open for purchase—(all such districts will be surveyed, or the unsold portions thereof, being at every sale open for selection)—and the highest bidder for each successive choice shall accordingly forth with select a section on the map or plan, and declare his choice to the officer conducting the sale, and shall become the purchaser of the same section at such sum per acre as shall have been bidden. The said officer shall, after each selection, proceed to invite another set of biddings, and shall so continue the sale on the same, and, if requisite, on the following day or days, so long as there shall be any bidder for a selection at the upset price per acre.

30—Rural Land may, at the discretion of the Superintendent, be saleable with consent of the Provincial Council; be sold at either by auction marked out prior to the sale, or in sections whereof the area and general position may be determined by the purchaser at the time of sale; but in the latter case no section shall exceed 240 acres or be less than 40 acres, and the purchaser shall be subject to the conditions prescribed by Article 13, respecting the laying out of land over an area not to encompass frontage and other advantages, and shall not be permitted to select so as to leave detached parcels of land less than 40 acres in area or otherwise not advantageously saleable as separate sections; and shall be subject also to such other conditions, general or special, respecting the laying out of such sections as may from time to time be prescribed by the Superintendent, with the approval of the Provincial Council. A competent person may be appointed by the Superintendent to attend at any sale, with authority to see the execution of this article, and to forbid any selection attempted in contravention thereof. And if necessary any sale may be adjourned till the following day, or suspended till the next periodical day, for the purpose of accurately determining the boundaries of the selections already made before proceeding to further sales.

31—The upset price for Rural Land shall be ten shillings per acre.

32—Town Land shall be sold only on such days as the Superintendent shall appoint by notice published in the said Gazette. Provided that the day so appointed be always on the 15th day of the month, unless the same fall on a Sunday or Good Friday (in which case the following day may be appointed) and be not less than one calendar month after the publication of the notice.

33—The sale of Crown Land shall be conducted in all respects similarly to the sale of Rural Land save that Town Land shall be put up to sale in sections previously marked out, and the Superintendent shall, by every notice of sale, limit the number of selections to be made at such sale, and shall in like manner prescribe some particular town site or town sites in which the selections or any number thereof are to be-made; and the biddings shall be of a certain sum per section.

34—The upset price or prices of Town Land shall be such sum per section as shall, for each particular sale and town site, be appointed by the Superintendent, and shall be specified in the notice of sale, and a scale of upset prices may be appointed according to the order of selection.

35—It shall be a condition of every sale that one-tenth of the purchase money be immediately paid in cash to the Officer conducting the sale, and that the remainder be paid to the proper Officer within one calendar month. If default be made in either payment, the sale shall be void. If default be made in the latter payment, the instalment of one-tenth shall be forfeited.

36—The Officer conducting the sale, whether of Rural or Town land, shall certify to the Superintendent, and also to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, the distinguishing numbers or marks of the sections sold, and it shall be the duty of the said Commissioner from time to time to cause the sections sold to be distinctly marked as sold, or to be otherwise clearly distinguished in the proper map or plan.

VI.—MILITARY SETTLERS.

37—Military and Naval Officers will be allowed the privilege accorded to them in the purchase of Crown Lands by any Regulations in force within the Province previously to the issue of these Regulations. But the remission money given to them in the terms of such Regulations will be subject to the rules hereinbefore prescribed relative to Government Scrip.

38—Government Scrip, available only within the Province, may be issued at par to any such officer for the amount of his remission money on his signing and depositing with the Commissioner of Crown Lands a memorandum declaring that, by acceptance of such Scrip, he holds himself to have come under an honourable obligation, and does accordingly engage to reside within the Province for the space of two years from the issue of such Scrip.

39—Non-commissioned officers and privates in Her Majesty's Army or in the Royal Militia, who being on service in the Province shall obtain their discharge there (such privates being discharged with good conduct certificates) shall, after a residence within the Province of one year after discharge, be entitled to the issue of Government Scrip available only within the Province to the amount following:—

£
Non-commissioned Officers ......... 80
Privates ........................................ 40

VII.—MINERAL LAND.

40—It shall be competent to the Superintendent with the approval of the Provincial Council, to reserve, for the purpose of letting the same, any tract or section known or supposed to have especial value as containing mineral.

41—Leases of Mineral land shall be made to such persons for such terms of years, under and subject to such rents, royalties, reservations, and covenants, and generally in such manner as, having been proposed by the Superintendent to, and approved of, by the Provincial Council, shall be finally approved of by the Governor, and not otherwise. This provision is without prejudice to the fulfilment of any existing engagement entered into by the Crown.

VIII.—FEES ON CROWN GRANTS.

42—By Ordinance No. 2 of Session VII., the sum of twenty shillings is payable before the delivery of every Crown Grant by the person entitled to receive the same. No other fee is payable on the issue of Crown Grants.

IX.—COMMENCEMENT OF OPERATION.

43—These Regulations shall come into force at the expiration of one calendar month from the issue thereof.

CHARLES BROWN,
Superintendent.